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The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade – 1985-1986!

Posted by Matt on 11/27/2003. E-mail me!

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Un. Fucking. Believeable.

They could NOT have made Orko any more gay.

And the relentless Mickey D’s advertising…oh, it’s fucking genius!

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 01/16/2004 7:56 PM

When you construct your pages for the Thanksgiving parades in the mid-1990s, you must include the homage to host Willard Scott by the Homewood (Alabama) High School Marching Band. When they concluded their performance, a band member — with perfect synchronization — flipped over a placard to reveal a giant photo of Willard. It was reminiscent of those grandiose public tributes to Third World dictators on their birthdays/"coronation" anniversaries.

I think that this happened during the 1996 parade (maybe it was 1995).

Chestnuts roasted by Jason B. @ 01/29/2004 2:20 AM

Holy Crap. I cried i laughed so much. I remember a lot of this shit, but who could have reminded me about Dick Van Patten singing a commerecial song about the family dog, trying to look intersted. Classic.

Chestnuts roasted by Earthwormgym @ 04/23/2004 11:54 PM

BTW, I rember that old people Mikey D’s commercial and it choaked me up too….but not as much as the 1986 (?) Mickey D’s commercial that had the kid crying because he didn’t get picked out for ice skating with the crowd..and then Ol’ boy Ronald McDonald shows up and starts ice skating with him. Definitly the most important McDonalds commercial ever made, usually run in conjuction with the "Peanuts", Charlie Brown Christmas. I think when we die, we don’t go to Heaven, we go to our favorite decade.

Chestnuts roasted by earthwormgym @ 04/23/2004 11:59 PM

god i love spending a lazy sunday afternoon just reading about a drunk phyllis diller and an armless superman. i remeber these parades from when i was a kid. the old ads bring back a LOT of old memories, some i cherish and some i’d soon forget.( the wuzzles?)
i have many of the commercials that matt has graciously given to us on this site on old tapes of the real ghostbusters i still have. i watch them occasionally because not only were they great, but i still like the commercials.
i have the choco bliss commercial and even the one featuring Hi-C 100
with new 100% juice, and the new long straw in my Hi-c Fruit Drink.

god looking back i know theyre corny but theres something about them that just make you feel nostalgic. I feel old and i’m only 20. now thats a damn shame

Chestnuts roasted by Randy @ 06/13/2004 5:25 PM

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Chestnuts roasted by frankie smales @ 11/09/2008 1:51 PM

FWIW at this point, the woman in the Gloworm ad is not Mary Hart, but Joan Lunden, former co-host of Good Morning America. I hated that program when I was a kid ’cause if I was up early enough to hear the show’s theme music it meant school was back in session.

Chestnuts roasted by ChrisC @ 03/07/2009 11:51 PM

just finished re-reading 1984 and 1985/6 just now, continuing my time-traveling holiday with you! I’m 37, so part of me still thinks it’s basically the 90s, so it’s really weird when they intro’d Snoopy as “turning 35″ and then I realize the 80s are almost as far away from now as the 50s were from the 80s. Does that make any sense? Blame it on too much baking today.

You need a link at the top of your Thanksgiving sites always linking to the year you recreated the Peanuts Thanksgiving Dinner of Toast & Jelly Beans — that was the first think that brought me here.

Chestnuts roasted by April @ 11/24/2011 12:54 AM

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